Elgin-area Catholics looked back with fondness on the 12-year reign of Pope Francis, who died Monday of a cerebral stroke at ...

His followers saw him as symbolizing the church's open arms. His critics saw him as bending timeless church doctrines.

Gunshots, robberies, and assaults — neighbors in ... Wood St., is now used as the Cook County Sheriff's Office Central Warrant Unit Headquarters. The current Near West District station is ...

CHICAGO — Felony charges have been filed against two Chicago men accused of shooting at a driver on the West Side last month, leaving him critically injured. According to Chicago police ...

On his February trip to the region, Secretary of State Marco Rubio singled out the Nicaraguan government’s effort “to eliminate the Catholic Church and the religious ... of the Immaculate Conception ...

Songs from Elton John, Celine Dion and Mary J. Blige; the cast recording of ... Brew,” Tracy Chapman’s eponymous 1988 album, Chicago’s 1969 LP “Chicago Transit Authority,” the radio ...

Lancaster Catholic grad Travis Jankowski signed a minor league contract with the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday, the team announced, after the outfielder spent a few days in baseball limbo ...

A Chicago woman was charged with shooting a 33-year-old man inside a building on the city's West Side Saturday morning. Keithina Brisco Edwards, 24, was arrested and charged with one felony count ...

In the larger West ... church four blocks away at Erie and May streets that was torn down for construction of the Kennedy Expressway. At the time, about 43% of the Chicago area was Catholic ...

St. John's forward Brady Dunlap becomes the latest transfer portal target for West Virginia, according to Sam Kayser of 24/7 High School Hoops. Baylor, BYU, Colorado State, Davidson, Fordham ...

With the upcoming canonization of its first millennial saint, the Catholic Church ... a shrine in a church dedicated to a key moment in the life of medieval hometown saint, St. Francis.